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covered with a bell glass ; or if there
be enough, they may be placed a dozen
supply of flowers maybe Iftid from September
to the end of June. Single
or two in a large pan, and a glass that
will fit inside the rim, covered over
them. They must never be allowed to
dry. The glasses should be occasion-
plants in thirty-two or twenty-four-sized
pots are large enough. No plants suffer
so much from being crowded together
; indeed, when short of room it is
ally wiped dry inside. Whether there better to throw away a few plants than
be one cutting or a dozen, they should have the whole cramped for room."
be so placed that the
pressed into the sand to
glass can be
keep out the
Gard. Chron.
Winter-blooming.—''• When the cine-
air until they have all struck.
" They can always be watered withrarias
have done
the flower-stems
flowering, cut off" all
and old leaves, and
out disturbing the glass, if it be pro- place them in a cold pit or frame, which
perly placed inside the rim, because by must be kept rather close for two or
watering over the glass, the whole can three weeks to cause the plants to grow;
be soaked ; but the drainage must be afterwards admit air freely by day, but
good, or they will rot.
" If you happen to have a declining
keep them close at night ; then about
the beginning of August divide the old
hot-bed in which there remains a little
bottom heat, the pan or pots maybe
plants into pieces, and put them into
small pots filled with a mixture of good
placed therein. It will rather hasten
the striking. Those side-shoots which
have roots to them may be immediately
loam and sandy peat, to which may be
added a small portion of well-rotted
dung. When potted, return them to
potted into sixty-sized pots, and treated
the same as seedlings just potted off.
In a few weeks the cuttings will have
the pit or frame, and keep them close;
afterwards, as they grow, shift them
into larger pots, and use a little manure-
struck, which will be indicated by their
beginning to grow ; they may be potted
water ; and finally, as the danger of
frost approaches, remove them to the
oft' also, as seedlings are potted, in green-house, where they will bloom well
sixty-sized pots. Here the treatment
is just the same as that directed for
seedlings." Hort. Mag.
After-Culture. — "About the first
week in June, the plants being removed
from the green-house, and turned out
all the winter and spring, if kept free
from insects." Gard. Chron.
CINNAMOMUM. Cinnamon. Eleven
species. Stove evergreen trees.
Ripe cuttings. Loam and peat.
CINNAMON. Cinnamomum.
of their pots, the old earth shaken from CION. See Scion.
their roots, plant rather deeply, and CIRCiEA. Three species. Hardy
about eighteen inches apart in light
rich soil in the open garden, and water
as often as they seem to require it.
By the end of July, they throw up
myriads of suckers; they are then taken
up and parted, preserving ihe smallest
atom that has a root to it. The largest
herbaceous perennials. Offsets. Common
soil.
CIRCUMPOSITION differs from layering,
only that in this the shoot to be
rooted is bent down to the soil, whilst
in circumposition the soil is placed in
a vessel and raised to the shoot. There
plants are potted in pots proportionate are pots called layering pots made for
to their size, in a compost consisting of this practice, and diftering from the
leaf mould, rotten dung, and strong common garden pot, only by having a
turfy loam, in about equal quantities, section about an inch broad cut through
and placed in a shady situation. These one side, and to the centre of the bot-
will flower in September and October, tom, for the admission of the shoot or
and will do well either for the house, branch.
or for filling up beds, or vacancies in
the flower garden. The other plants
are replanted in the open garden, watered,
and shaded until established,
taken up with balls, and potted about
the end of October, and protected from
frost in a cold frame or pit through the
winter. In this manner, and by keep-
M. Foulup employs " small tin cases
of a conical form, like the upper part
of a funnel, two and three-quarter
inches in length, and two and a sixth
inches in width at top, narrowing towards
the lower part till only sufficient
room is left for the introduction of the
shoot or branch intended to be propaing
plants of various sizes, a regular gated. These cones are supported on
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